Awwal 19, 1432, Feb 22, 2011, SPA -- Foreign ministers from the Association of the South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) met Tuesday in Indonesia to try to solve a border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia. The informal meeting followed a call by the United Nations Security Council earlier this month for the bloc to meet to find a solution to the conflict over an 11-century temple on the Thai-Cambodian border. Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, chairman of the meeting, said both sides in the dispute agreed to avoid another armed confrontation. "There's a determination that this issue will be solved through negotiations," Natalegawa said before the meeting. "I think that's the road the two countries are taking. "Don't expect this to be an event in which an instant solution will be found," he was quoted as saying by the German Press Agency "DPA". "But we would like to make it absolutely clear to all ASEAN member states that the option of conflict, the option of the use of force, is not meant to be on the table."
